The Role
Lead and enhance the finance function for multiple international offices, ensuring compliance with local regulations, tax, audits, and reporting. Provide strategic financial guidance to senior leadership, drive financial planning, performance management, and operational efficiency. Oversee implementation of finance policies, ECL models and reporting initiatives, strengthen controls and governance, manage finance projects, and represent finance with auditors, regulators and key stakeholders.
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Job Purpose
- Lead and enhance finance function to support the financial performance, planning and control for the International Offices (i.e. CIMB Cambodia, CIMB Vietnam, CIMB Philippines, Hong Kong Branch, Shanghai Branch, Labuan Branch, London Branch and other international offices).
- Lead and oversee all financial matters across International Offices, ensuring compliance with local regulations, tax, audits, and reporting.
- Oversee finance operational matters across International Offices, driving implementation of finance policies and strategies.
- Provide strategic financial guidance to key and senior leadership, supporting informed decision-making and long-term financial sustainability
Key Responsibilities
- Oversee all financial matters across the countries, ensuring compliance with local regulations, tax, audits, and reporting requirements.
- Provide strategic financial leadership, aligning country operations with the Group’s overall financial goals and performance targets.
- Oversee the financial operations by ensuring adherence to best practices for financial management and control.
- Act as the key liaison between Group Finance and country finance teams, ensuring consistency in financial policies, controls and reporting.
- Provide strategic financial advice and insights to the key and senior managements including Country CEOs and GEXCO members whom are overseeing the International Offices.
- Drive financial planning, performance management, and operational efficiency across countries.
- Drive and manage finance projects and intiatives across countries, enhancing operational efficiency and strengthening internal controls and governance and mitigate financial risks.
- Oversee and drive the implementation of localised ECL models and other Financial reporting standards initiatives.
- Monitor and enhance financial performance by identifying opportunities, addressing challenges, and monitoring key financial metrics.
- Represent the International Office in financial discussions with auditors, regulators, and key stakeholders and also represent Group Finance in each country’s committees.
- Stay ahead of evolving financial regulations and accounting standards, ensuring timely adaptation and best practices.
Skills Required
- Proven experience leading finance for multi-country or international offices
- Deep knowledge of local regulations, tax, audit and reporting requirements across jurisdictions
- Experience driving financial planning, performance management and operational efficiency
- Experience implementing localized ECL models and financial reporting standards
- Strong internal controls, governance and financial risk management experience
- Experience managing finance transformation projects and cross-country initiatives
- Experience liaising with auditors, regulators and senior stakeholders (CEOs, GEXCO)
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The Company
What We Do
CIMB Group is a leading ASEAN universal bank, one of the largest Asian investment banks and one of the world's largest Islamic banks. We are headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and offer consumer banking, commercial banking, wholesale banking, Islamic banking, and asset management products and services. As the fifth largest banking group in ASEAN, we have over 36,000 staff in 16 locations across ASEAN, Asia and beyond. CIMB Bank and CIMB Islamic Bank are members of PIDM.
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